Crossword-Solution: YAUPON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Yaupon | n. | A shrub (Ilex Cassine) of the Holly family, native from Virginia to Florida. The smooth elliptical leaves are used as a substitute for tea, and were formerly used in preparing the black drink of the Indians of North Carolina. Called also South-Sea tea. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “YAUPON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BLACK drink | 1 answer |
| CASSENA | 1 answer |
| HOLY emetic | 1 answer |
| Southern holly | 1 answer |
| Type of holly | 1 answer |
| Holly | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AEZECM
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eruption
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Sentences with YAUPON (5)
Others take it, after it is bruis'd, and put it into a Bowl, to which they put live Coals, and cover them with the Yaupon, till they have done smoaking, often turning them over.
The Savages of Carolina have this Tea in Veneration, above all the Plants they are acquainted withal, and tell you, the Discovery thereof was by an infirm Indian, that labour'd under the Burden of many rugged Distempers, and could not be cured by all their Doctors; so, one day, he fell asleep, and dreamt, that if he took a Decoction of the Tree that grew at his Head, he would certainly be cured; upon which he awoke, and saw the Yaupon or Cassena-Tree, which was not there when he fell asleep.
Noisy flocks of robins fluttered among the trees, eating the ripe, red yaupon berries, and now and then parties of pigeons circled round and round the house.
Each tree was familiar; even the bright coral yaupon clusters were like dear friends greeting her after a long absence.
Among the sand dunes of the extensive "Banks" along the North Carolina coast there grows in great profusion a small bushy tree known as the yaupon.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1975–1996).